Re: SL crowds in 2000 vs SL crowds in 2008 : Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:54 am  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

interesting to see that 5,000 people have absconded form the succesful bradford side of that time and their now succesful close neighbours in leeds have gained 5,000 - not that i am suggesting anything.
just wonder how many of them 5,000 at leeds were celebrating at odsal in 1997

Success is a great crowd enhancer though. I think any SL club with Leeds' current credentials would draw an extra 5k.

Re: SL crowds in 2000 vs SL crowds in 2008 : Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:19 pm  

GanEden wrote:

You're such a great ambassador for your club!

Hello, Mr Kettle it's Mr Pot. You're black.

Re: SL crowds in 2000 vs SL crowds in 2008 : Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:18 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

well thats blown the secret - aren't we supposed to get poor crowds?
who only need to open 1 side of our ground ?
who are a disgrace to SL for our poor crowds?


obviously not!!,maybe people ought to look at that before they decide to spout rubbish in future.


interesting to see that 5,000 people have absconded form the succesful bradford side of that time and their now succesful close neighbours in leeds have gained 5,000 - not that i am suggesting anything.
just wonder how many of them 5,000 at leeds were celebrating at odsal in 1997

I think you need to find another club to attempt to troll about. We don't care about Huddersfield, so why do you care about us? It's like Leeds United hating Manchester United, except Manchester United don't give a crap.

I'd put those 5k for Leeds down to them advertising themselves around Leeds more, and the relegation of Leeds United.

I believe we (Bradford) were losing crowds even when we were going through the successful years. That is down to boring rugby and Odsal - Odsal we hope is now getting rebuilt in the coming years.

Oh, I see you've struck a deal with the colleges in Huddersfield by the way with free tickets on demand to students? I may be wrong, but that's what I'm told by people who go to those colleges.

Now, shouldn't you be enjoying your gloating about Friday somewhere else. You'd think you won a grand final or something.

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:09 pm  

where was i trolling about your club sunshine i was merely stating that it was a coincidence that 2 clubs so close together happen to have 5,000 as a loss or gain duing one of those clubs successful period.

get off your high horse,we dont care about you ,you mean nothing to us - your west yorkshire's 4th team with an awful ground and awful bitter moaning fans - we are not in awe of your club anymore.

and if anything i was having a dig more at glory hunting supporters who may have possibly changed allegiances over a period of time from one past succesful club to a current one - if that is you then yes i was trolling.

your bradford bulls - a once feared dynamo of our game ,now your nothing,just another SL team.wake up and realise people dont care about your club anymore

Re: SL crowds in 2000 vs SL crowds in 2008 : Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:22 pm  

Paul124897 wrote:

Oh, I see you've struck a deal with the colleges in Huddersfield by the way with free tickets on demand to students? I may be wrong, but that's what I'm told by people who go to those colleges.

Your wrong

Happy to have cleared that up for you

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:44 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

where was i trolling about your club sunshine i was merely stating that it was a coincidence that 2 clubs so close together happen to have 5,000 as a loss or gain duing one of those clubs successful period.

your problem with that is that 5k didnt suddenly leave bradford and 5k didnt just appear at headingley

Leeds were getting crowds of 16k when bradford were getting of 13-14k

which means either A) your hypothesis is wrong because they are different people

or B) between these fans hedged their bets between about 2002 and 2005 and attended every game for both sides

Re: SL crowds in 2000 vs SL crowds in 2008 : Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:55 pm  

Wellsy13 wrote:

Just having a look at the SLStats.org site, and I can't believe some of the comparisons on the crowds:

Average - 2000 vs 2008
Bradford: 14,520 vs 10,287
Castleford: 7,980 vs 7,501
Harlequins: 3,431 vs 3,909
Huddersfield: 3,392 vs 7,820
Hull FC: 5,940 vs 13,432
Leeds: 12,674 vs 17,043
Saints: 8,809 vs 10,642
Wakefield: 4,621 vs 6,962
Warrington: 6,872 vs 9,500
Wigan: 10,536 vs 14,505

Halifax: 5,714 vs Hull KR: 8,623
Salford: 4,452 vs Catalans: 8,376

Can't believe how much the game has grown since I first started watching regularly.

some great crowd increases, and if Salford, Saints, Cas and Wakefield get their new grounds and have the 40-50% increases that Hull and Warrington have had...it will look even healthier.

Re: SL crowds in 2000 vs SL crowds in 2008 : Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:52 pm  

Wellsy13 wrote:

Hull FC: 5,940 vs 13,432

Surely this is not correct? Hull have always had MASSIVE crowds, its only Rovers that have bandwagon jumpers!

Re: SL crowds in 2000 vs SL crowds in 2008 : Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:09 pm  

Alphabetti Spaghetti Go! wrote:

Surely this is not correct? Hull have always had MASSIVE crowds, its only Rovers that have bandwagon jumpers!

It is.
Hull FC grew there crowds year on year upon entry to SL (not far different from our Divsion 1 attendances). Hull KR's all jumped on the bandwagon as soon as they got into SL.

Hope that helps

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:27 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

your problem with that is that 5k didnt suddenly leave bradford and 5k didnt just appear at headingley

Leeds were getting crowds of 16k when bradford were getting of 13-14k

which means either A) your hypothesis is wrong because they are different people

or B) between these fans hedged their bets between about 2002 and 2005 and attended every game for both sides

i wasnt suggesting they did just appear, i was saying it was a coincidence !